This immediately recalls Enobarbus's description of the same incident in Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii.191-204):(4) common ideas are traced, as `cloth of gold' (Antony and Cleopatra II.ii.199) becomes `silk and silver' (
Cymb. II.iv.69) and the notion of ekphrasis implicit in Enobarbus's narration (`[o]'er-picturing', line 200) iS displaced to an actual picture as Iachimo also evokes a scene which is not immediately present to his interlocutor.